Faced With Widespread skepticism, Warmists Hit Panic Button

That is Newsweek’s latest cover and it comes with a hysterical fantasy from the so-called science editor. The article is one of those piece of media paranoia that is so wrong it is hard to know where to start. Since I haven’t got time to fisk the whole piece, here are five obvious errors.

Read it all. Basically, you have to be nearly brain-dead to fall for Sharon Begley’s fear-mongering.

ABC tried this type of take on Nightline last week. They talked about all the tornado, then showed a map that indicated that a large mass of COLD air in the northwest was behind the storms. The cold air is running into the warmer air to the south, creating that awful weather.

There you have it, global warming is causing the cold air that is causing the “proof” of global warming.

The smarties on WattsUpWithThat always seem to get big chuckles out of ABC’s attempts at explaining science, which seem to focus more on picking people who look smart and sound convincing than people who actually are smart and present convincing points.